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Inside The Arts: Mystery In Motion | African American Masking And Spirituality In Mardi Gras

Photo credit: Vincent Simmons
Victor Harris, Big Chief of Fi Yi

The Louisiana State Museum is celebrating African American Carnival traditions with the opening of a new exhibit at the Presbytere. It’s called Mystery in Motion: African American Masking and Spirituality in Mardi Gras.  Guest curator and Xavier University Professor of Education Kim Vaz-Deville joins us by phone.  

The exhibit will be on display through November 28, 2021  inside the Presbytere on Jackson Square.  More info is available online at louisianastatemuseum.org

"This is NPR's Morning Edition, at 89.9 WWNO. Good Morning, I'm Diane Mack."